My Photographic Bucket List

What are some of YOUR ventures you wish to do before YOU die?

Here's my list:

Sail Through The Antarctic Ice

Hike Down To The Havasupai Indian Reservation within Grand Canyon

Go Whale Watching in Alaska

Climb El Capitan

Cage Dive With Great White Sharks In South Africa

Go Jogging on the Great Wall of China

Experience The Aurora Borealis In The Artic

Ride a Camel In The Moroccan Dessert

Watch Cinema Paradiso at a Drive-In Movie Theater Under The Stars

Hot Air Balloon Over Wine Country (w/ a bottle of wine, of course)

Surf The Waves in Hawaii

Explore The Great Barrier Reef

Go Dog Sledding in Alaska

Meditate With a Monk In Yangon

Witness a Geisha Perform The ‘Cherry Blossom Dance’ In Kyoto, Japan

Play Hockey With Wayne Gretzky On A Frozen Pond

Discover El Chalten in Argentina

Get Lost In Patagonia

Cross ‘The Bridge of No Return’ between North & South Korea

Trek Through Laos by Elephant

Senior Picture Season

Tis the season! No not necessarily christmas but, senior picture season! Where self proclaimed photographers like myself must flock to random fields and wait until sunset to capture the faces of our leaders of tomorrow. I do about 35 sessions a year and it seems like i have done even more this year already. My hometown of Kingfisher is where most of my clients come from and they've been steadily growing in attendance since i was a senior in 2009. I graduated with 88 kids. This year there are around 145 so a boom in pictures is understandable and trust me, at around 150 to 200 a shoot, I am not complaining. Here is an example of some shots I did of Alex. 

Experimenting with light

Recently, i have had a project in my Photography in which i had to, simply enough, "Experiment with Light".  Here's what i ended up with.


 This first picture was taken using an extended exposure and a light bulb. How i made the light bulb light up will remain a mystery. A magician never reveals his secrets. Anyway, i like this one. Its simple. A twist on the "bright idea light bulb."

 This is the Miss America crown from 2007. My friend Lauren was crowned on National Television and now this crown sits in a back room in her house hidden from everyone. The idea was to capture the fact that this crown had its couple minutes of fame and now will gather dust in a closet.

This picture oddly enough was taken down the middle of a paper towel roll. With a light at the end. 

"Don't walk towards the light"